Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction

Name: Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction
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ISBN: 9780253202727

ISBN-10: 0253202728

ISBN-13: 9780253202727

Edition: 1982

Authors: Annis Pratt

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Archetypal patterns endure because they give expression to perennial dilemmas submerged in the collective unconscious. Having examined more than 300 novels by both major and minor women writers over three centuries, Annis Pratt perceives in women's fiction distinctive elements of plot, characterization, image, and tone. She argues that women's fiction should be read as a mutually illuminative or interrelated field of texts reflecting feminine archetypes that are signals of a repressed tradition in conflict with patriarchal culture. Pratt suggests that the archetypal patterns in women's fiction provide a ritual expression containing the potential for the reader's personal transformation and…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 2/22/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



preface and Acknowledgment



the Roots of Self



Introduction



the Novel of Development (with Barbara White)



Enclosure in the Patriarchy



Novels of Marriage



the Novel of Social Protest



Eros as an Expression of the Self



Love Between Men and Women



Love and Friendship Between Women (with Andrea Loewenstein)



Singleness and Solitude



Transformation of the Self



Novels of Rebirth and Transformation



Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction


Notes


Bibliography


Index